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All About Photo is pleased to present 'Lost America' by Matthew Portch.
All About Photo proudly presents an exclusive online exhibition featuring the work of the British photographer Matthew Portch. On view throughout September 2024, this captivating showcase includes twenty street photographs from his acclaimed series ‘Lost America.’
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66 Drive-In, MO
Lauren Capp 1 year ago
We are lucky to have a twin screen drive in here in Pittsburgh. I wait to see movies just to go to this drive in. Lovely family bought it and has maintained it for years. It's also cheap as heck.
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Justsomedude 1 year ago
This place is still open I'm going to go see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice on Friday
LOST AMERICA
'Lost America' examines a quiet stillness in a forgotten landscape that is, in a sense, ‘on pause.’ Backwater towns and rural corners are juxtaposed with the ambiguity of detached suburbia. Places appear frozen in time, their inhabitants absent or long since departed. Ardently stagnant in appearance, the spaces yearn to instill a melancholic feeling of familiarity. One might not notice the scenes when viewed within the vast stretch of America’s panorama. Yet, framed as a vignette, each could appear to echo a moment of mournful reverie and reflective contemplation.
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Water Tower, NJ
Bart Scheenaard 1 year ago
i love it how (it seems) that neighbor only cut half of the grass that is dividing their plots
Mike F 1 year ago
Isn't that weird? That stuff just blows me away. You can almost picture the neighbors turning their noses up at each other when they meet, lol.
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google slave 1 year ago
That's annoying. That's just idiotic. Knowing how they have to pull into their driveway to not drive on the patch of grass is just ridiculous.
Jp@nda 1 year ago
Don't know why that bothers you so much?! I've seen driveways that look like this with grass or stones in the center plenty of tubes before. The only thing odd about it is the grass is a little long
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Buried Car, CA
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Payphone, NM
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Law Office, NM
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Prada, TX
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Ford Drive In, Mi
Mike F 1 year ago
I remember going here when I was a little boy. It was a single screen back then. A VERY long time ago.
Joseph Wojciechowski 1 year ago
It's in Michigan at ford rd and Wyoming rd
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Hoop By The Sea, CA
Deanna Edgar 1 year ago
This is not lost its in San Pedro California by the bell its used all the time
Katy Wright 1 year ago
This is a basketball court in San Pedro, CA near the Korean Friendship Bell.
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Tree Of Life, UT
#10
Penitentiary Bus, La
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Chevy With Flames, CA
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Refinery Cemetary, LA
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Picnic Stands, MN
google slave 1 year ago
That's MN after the apocalypse maybe. This is typical of today's society. You don't need to be correct about anything you say. You can just make assumptions and hope no one notices.
James' Journeys 1 year ago
White Sands National Park, New Mexico is gorgeous in person, and sledding down the gypsum dunes is loads of fun.
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Little America, WY
Wolf princess quinn 1 year ago (edited)
Maybe just doors out of the hell hole known as arkansas
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The Wall Frame, AR
Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 year ago
This is at Meteor Crater in Arizona. We were there 2 years ago. Why are all these posts incorrectly identified???
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House By The Canefields, LA
Mike F 1 year ago
Where's the checkin/factoids supplied by the individual who seems intent on stirring things up today?
pug nose curly tail 1 year ago
"Thus is my mom's house by cornfields in AL, not LA" How'd I do?
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Empty Pool, CA
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Paiute Drain, NV
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Baptist Church, LA
Tamara Harris 1 year ago
I can assure you that Baptist churches are still doing very well on church days.
Andrea Carter 1 year ago
This looks like every church in my state anyway not really lost in time in this one...
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Recreation Area, UT
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Lemon Beans 1 year ago
The captions on these suck, but that seems to be the fault of the author, not the photographer. His website doesn't have any of these places actually named. I don't think "lost America" was a fitting title, but the goal of capturing liminal spaces was done well imo
Alya 1 year ago (edited)
"Places appear frozen in time, their inhabitants absent or long since departed. Ardently stagnant in appearance, the spaces yearn to instill a melancholic feeling of familiarity." A cool description of a simple but lovely project! Here's the project on the photographers website: https://www.mattportch.com/lost-america
A B 1 year ago
Just cause the pictures are pretty doesn't mean the misinformation is okay. Plus it kinda paints a negative picture of rural US by claiming that it's "Lost"
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Alya 1 year ago
I like these photographs. I think the emptiness and lack of life brings a very strong sense of stillness. Lost America doesn't seem a terribly unfitting title, it could be about being lost in America, or how we've lost America, or any number of interpretations. I think Matthew Portch has a good collection of photographs here ☺️
Kathryn Walker 1 year ago
Near where I live, there is a run - down dogtrot house with corn growing in the backyard. The house sits between a dollar store and a local grocery.
Lemon Beans 1 year ago
The captions on these suck, but that seems to be the fault of the author, not the photographer. His website doesn't have any of these places actually named. I don't think "lost America" was a fitting title, but the goal of capturing liminal spaces was done well imo
Alya 1 year ago (edited)
"Places appear frozen in time, their inhabitants absent or long since departed. Ardently stagnant in appearance, the spaces yearn to instill a melancholic feeling of familiarity." A cool description of a simple but lovely project! Here's the project on the photographers website: https://www.mattportch.com/lost-america
A B 1 year ago
Just cause the pictures are pretty doesn't mean the misinformation is okay. Plus it kinda paints a negative picture of rural US by claiming that it's "Lost"
Load More Replies... Alya 1 year ago
I like these photographs. I think the emptiness and lack of life brings a very strong sense of stillness. Lost America doesn't seem a terribly unfitting title, it could be about being lost in America, or how we've lost America, or any number of interpretations. I think Matthew Portch has a good collection of photographs here ☺️
Kathryn Walker 1 year ago
Near where I live, there is a run - down dogtrot house with corn growing in the backyard. The house sits between a dollar store and a local grocery.
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